In an exclusive interview with The Brody File, Senator Rand Paul says America should be led by moral and religious leaders but, “their overriding message is to fix the country's economy not to fix the country's moral nature." Paul also says that a winning candidate can be a social conservative, “but if that's the only issue you do estrange some people.”

The Brody File spent a couple days with Rand Paul and his family down in Kentucky. Rand Paul’s wife (Kelley Paul) sat for the interview as well at their home in Bowling Green Kentucky.

The national profile on him (including an interview with his wife) will air on The 700 Club Thursday. We are releasing some clips ahead of the interview. We will also release more clips on Thursday. Much of this material is NOT in the final 700 Club piece.

Senator Rand Paul (On whether social issues need to minimized within the GOP): “I think sort of the in-between is that it doesn't mean you can't elect or won't elect people who are socially conservative but if that's the only issue you do estrange some people but what I’m saying is that you need a candidate who does believe in your issues, who doesn’t try to be something they’re not but also recognizes that what brings the country together and what people are trying to figure out is how do I get my brother a job? How do I get my sister a job? How do I get the economy growing? It is important though that a country and a civilization have moral underpinnings but I think if it's only about that then I think you need to be finding who the next Billy Graham is and we need both."

Senator Rand Paul: "You want moral and religious people I think to be your leaders but their overriding message is to fix the country's economy not to fix the country's moral nature."

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He's wrong. Paul - and every other pol needs to understand the fundamentals:

It doesn't matter a damn thing what your economic ideals are - if you aren't on the right track morally - you aren't going to succeed economically either.

6 posted on 04/10/2013 8:23:33 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
(NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)

But he’s also right. There are serious limits on what the government can do to promote spiritual health. In fact, I really don’t want them to try. The best it can do is absence of harm. Just get out of the way. The most obvious example is to stop subsidizing spritual rot; do away with welfare and the artificial unlimited demand for illegitimate children. There is no surprise that the result will be an unlimited supply of them.

In the end, the government is only a reflection of the spiritual state of the nation. It is a creation of the people that want it. People will have to have their spiritual re-awakening on a personal level, and won’t do it because the goverment passed a law requiring it. Like Prohibition and drugs; people will do what they want, and laws won’t stop them. Only when people don’t want to do illegal drugs, and don’t want to have illegitimate children, will they stop doing or having them.

11 posted on 04/10/2013 8:35:38 AM PDT by henkster
(I have one more cow than my neighbor. I am a kulak.)

I think what he is saying in his last statement is that people (we) want moral & reltious people to be their (our) leaders, but their (the leaders’) overriding message is to fix the country’s economy, not to fix the country’s moral nature. He is right. The moral nature can only be fixed by salvation, and that comes from God. JMO.